How to avoid auto generated hyperlink in interactivePDF ?

Question

Hi, my document contains URLs as plain texts. I need to export it in interactive PDF.
Then all plain text URLs are hyperlinked. How to remove this?

What I tried are
- insert "hair space" before and after www. and http:

- Zero-Width-Space for www. and org. (I found the same topic here, but did not work : https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/remove-auto-generated-hyperlink-in-interactivepdf/m-p/12501186)

- Styled with `` (ex. www.instagram.com to `www.instagram.com`)

- non break character for a URL

My documents contains hyperlinked URLs too, therefore removing all hyperlinks doesn't work in this case.
I had a look hyperlink panel also, but there is no link in InDesign. Only when it is exported in interactive PDF.
Thank you in advance 🙂

Aya0883 · Accepted Answer

Thank you for your response. in the end I insert small dot same colour as the background. It looks fine:)

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

@Aya0883 Most PDF readers automatically recognise and convert plain-text URLs into clickable links. Outlining should work - as long as PDF viewer won't do OCR &#128521;

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